Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #271

by Scott H. Andrews (Editor), Aimee Ogden, Samantha Mills

Issue #271 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Aimee Ogden and Samantha Mills.

Genres: Fantasy

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 6, 2019

About the author

Scott H. Andrews is a writer of science fiction. He teaches college chemistry. He is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of the fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

Andrews's short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Space and Time, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, On Spec, Crossed Genres, and M-Brane SF.

Reviews

[Peter Tillman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review and rating solely for "Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark" by Aimee Ogden, http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.co... (novelette)
I read this one because I saw it in the Rocket Stack Ranks Best of 2019 list, http://www.rocketstackrank.com/p/2019... . I liked it, and it's startlingly frank in its sex scenes, but it's not quite my kind of story. Maybe it will be for you?

[Stephen Damm · Rating 3 out of 5]

This issue's stories are both about children, of some sort. The first story was interesting enough, but at the end it got a bit...weird. In the confusing sort of way.

The second story involves a dead child, so fair warning. That said, it never really resonated with me on an emotional level (to be fair, I was commuting on the bus and sort of kept falling asleep. Which doesn't reflect on the story-it's just at thing that happens to me on buses late in the afternoon. But I'll give some benefit of the doubt there).

Both are good. It's a solid issue, which gets a solid three stars.

[Elaysee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't precisely like the Ogden story, as it's darker than I usually prefer, but I admired it a lot - science fantasy that takes its science seriously is unusual, and biology-based science fantasy is even more so. The Mills story also has some science in its magic, and comes together nicely.